Staff DevOps Engineer, SamCart
eCommerce platform for creators
Job no longer available
eCommerce platform for creators
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower entrepreneurs with the tools they need to succeed.
Role
Who you are
- Expert in Amazon Web Services, leveraging cloud services to build performant, secure, highly available multi-region web applications
- Mastery of advanced tooling (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, SOPS, etc.)
- High proficiency with cloud-hosted continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines and tools (i.e. GitHub Actions, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline, GitLab CI, CircleCI, etc.)
- Fluency in Python and modern scripting languages (PHP, TypeScript, etc.)
- Experience managing data pipelines
- At least 5 years of professional experience building and supporting cloud infrastructure in AWS
- Familiarity with GCP sufficient to support seamless service migration
What the job involves
- SamCart is looking for a collaborative, conscientious, and experienced Staff DevOps Engineer to join our team.
- In this role you will refine, implement, and educate on our practices across SamCart’s cloud infrastructure in AWS and GCP, considering application performance and scalability, disaster recovery, data management, and security.
- You will be responsible for maintaining application uptime, 24x7 on-call rotation, infrastructure-as-code, and collaboration with our engineering teams as we consolidate our infrastructure in AWS.
- Finally, you will join our elite team of high-caliber engineers, product managers and designers to build a world-class ecommerce engine to power the future of SamCart and revolutionize commerce on the Internet
- Design, build and operate cloud-based infrastructure built around Docker and Kubernetes in AWS, focusing on infrastructure-as-code, GitOps, and CI/CD methodologies
- Support the ongoing development of a multi-tenant web application as we simplify our microservices architecture
- Perform a full spectrum of DevOps functions, including system administration, configuration management, data engineering, performance and security monitoring, disaster recovery, and 24x7 support
- Ensure efficiency and predictability of deployments and upgrades
- Lead the final steps of our migrations from GCP to AWS and from EC2 into Kubernetes
- Collaborate with AWS and GCP technical account managers, solutions architects, and consulting partners
Our take
The creator market is estimated to be worth well over $100B - and it’s growing fast. With the rise of eCommerce fuelling independent brands, and more people turning to this as a career avenue over recent years, demand is up for tools to support the industry. And SamCart is offering plenty of them.
The SamCart platform provides a wealth of eCommerce tools to help its over 75,000 creator customers set up a website, improve conversion rates and customer value, and operate and scale their businesses. It also offers business education in the form of CreatorU, an online library of business training content.
Importantly, this helps sellers operate independently of eCommerce giants like Etsy and Amazon - and SamCart doesn’t take a percentage of sales in return. This could see SamCart siphon off customers dissatisfied with the giants, whose practices increasingly cater towards larger brands.
So, SamCart has been slowly building out what could prove a huge contender to these major eCommerce rivals. Certainly, the rapid expansion of tools (including support for video course creators) demonstrates a market savvy and agility which will help it compete as the creator market grows.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2022
$82m
SERIES B
Jan 2021
$10m
SERIES A
Total funding: $95m
Company benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Flexible Work Schedules
- Fully Paid Health Benefits
- Paid Team Lunches
- Fully-Stocked Kitchen
Company HQ
Jollyville, Austin, TX
Leadership
Justin Smith
(CEO)Initially joined SamCart in 2017 as the Head of Product, becoming COO in 2020 and CEO in 2022. Previously the Director of Marketing at Curalate and the Global Director of BD and Partnerships at LivePerson.
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